Faculty

Dr. Neelam Azad joined the School of Pharmacy at Hampton University in August 2008 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and the position of department Chairperson in 2014. Dr. Azad’s vision is to provide high quality education in pharmaceutical sciences and to maintain a vigorous biomedical sciences research program. As part of her scholarly duties, Dr. Azad coordinates and teaches Physiological Chemistry (PHA 311) and Medicinal Chemistry (PHA 314). Dr. Azad’s research interests are in the field of lung pathologies and cancer cell biology, and she has published extensively in a number of high-profile scientific journals. Dr. Azad has received multiple NIH-funded SCORE grant awards and a recently funded sub-award under Hampton University’s U54 grant award. She serves as co-investigator on a training (R25) grant aimed at establishing a multi-year summer research-training program for pharmacy professional students in areas pertaining to lung pathologies.

Education

Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Sciences), West Virginia University, 2007

B.S. (Pharmacy), University of Mumbai, 2001

Honors & Awards

2016 Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP) Certification, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

2015, 2014, 2013 Professor of the Year Award, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hampton University

Neelam Azad. Molecular Mechanisms in Hexavalent Chromium-Induced Lung Pathogenesis. 6th Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis. Sponsored by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and Health and the University of Kentucky, 2010. (Podium)

Neelam Azad. Reactive Oxidative/Nitrosative Species in Lung Cancer and Fibrosis. 4th International Conference on Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress and Disease. The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), 2009. (Podium)